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contribution to French literature

...Creative writers in the realist mode addressed a widening popular readership with accounts of the lives of women trapped in slum housing and dead-end jobs. Notable works in this mode include
Christiane Rochefort’s
Les Petits Enfants du siècle (1961; “Children of the Times”; Eng. trans.
Josyane and the Welfare) and...